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The Decline of Magic The historical Jesus he traces how the islandA new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britainnamed a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change